Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232647 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13895
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and empirical frameworks to propose a new, improved index to monitor progress in the statistical capacity of nations. The paper illustrates the properties of the proposed index with global data from 2016.
Subjects: 
statistical capacity
statistical indicators
statistical index
national statistical system
data
measurement
JEL: 
C8
H00
I00
O1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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